clock … watching time, the only true currency

When this is visible without editing your hosts file, then I’ve successfully switched DNS and clock is now running on WordPress 1.5.2 at TextDrive.

3:00am
Success! (At least for the website… e-mail is still dodgy.)

Comments and TrackBacks are enabled on a go-forward basis, and more tweaking can commence.

Now comes all the small stuff.

• Old feed redirect (.htaccess file) DONE
• MeasureMap script implementation DONE
• Check out the image references in the few posts which had them, uploading images/fixing references as necessary.
• Redirects for all the old URLs (more .htaccess work… ugh).

E-mail looks to be the most troublesome, so far, of the DNS switch.

What worked well

• Radio Userland exporter script which I learned about here… much easier than my previous attempts/methods via the more generic archive files.
• WordPress import of a MT file (categories excepted, small price to pay)
• FeedBurner instructions for WordPress with the wonderful FeedBurner WordPress plug-in which works as advertised (easily).
• EasyDNS tools for switching all the DNS… with the pesky confusion of MX records, which I am considering avoiding altogether.

9:00am Wed
More updates to come.